Only a majority is needed for a shut down

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are moving forward with their plan to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open, tacked on to a year of defense spending and other measures.Because the Senate does not seem to be on the same page, some Republicans say the bill moving forward in the House might be a futile "exercise.""Unfortunately, we are back at that point that we were just a few weeks ago," said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a press conference on Tuesday. "The American public was reminded it’s not one simple party rule in the Senate. It takes 60 votes to pass anything. Unfortunately, last time we had to have a shutdown. Hopefully we will not be in that situation again."

The whole beauty of the system is that we need 41 senators to shut the place down.